Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Quote by Plato
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Plato Quotes
- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Best Quotes
- Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
- I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
- We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
- Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
- Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
- The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.